Brule-St. Croix Chapter, Northwest Wisconsin

Bird Sanctuary South

Bird Road - Spring Creek

Length of Segment: 4.5  miles

North Trailhead:  Bird Road.  For now, park just off the road on a track that leads northeast off Bird Road.  Walk in and you'll find a side road that leads into a temporary campsite (used by the Brule-St. Croix Rovers) and the trail.  A new trailhead will be built in the summer of 2007.

South Trailhead: Stuckey Road where the trail crosses, just north of the intersection with Prairie View Drive.

Alternate Access: County Highway M at the intersection with Bird Center Road.  Park along Bird Center Road.

Campsite: Rovers Lake, 0.7 miles southwest of County Highway M.

As you leave the trailhead heading southwest, you'll leave the open prairies of the Bird Sanctuary and enter a brushy area with jackpine and aspen.  Soon you'll emerge on the hillside above Rovers Lake, a sand country pothole that features a tiny island that has a "Boundary Waters" look due to its dense spruce and tamarack.  Follow the trail west above the Rovers Lake shoreline to a campsite on a knoll overlooking the lake, with three tent sites and room for more.

Leaving the campsite, you'll re-enter the woods and circle to the southwest corner of the lake, then climb up and away onto open prairie again.  In another mile, you'll reach Stuckey Road and the last road access of this segment.  The trail continues westward through prairie, then into pine-aspen as it passes by wetlands on its way to Spring Creek.  The trail currently ends at Spring Creek, where construction is underway to complete the route to Gordon Dam County Park and the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway.

Next Trail Segment West: Pattison State Park

Next Trail Segment East: Bird Sanctuary North

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